Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-24
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Tippoo-tib, tie African Chief who
has just sold 100000 worth of ivory,
is evidently one of those gentlemen
who have seen the elephant.
TOOK TO THE WOODS.
Not desiring to be caught between
the race-horse devil and the Republic
can shallow, blue sea, the great Bap-
tist Convention wisely took to the
woods last night.-Louisville Times.
TURNPIKEs WITH coNvIcTs.
The next Legislature should see 10
1t that some arrangement is made to
keep the convicts from remaining idle.
II there is no work in the penitenliary
let them be put to work building
turnpikes, to be owned by the State.
Louisville Times.
A BOOM FOR WIDOWS.
The number of young brides who
are now committing suicide has be-
come distressingly larger of late. If
this peculiar class OF tragedies in
crease, kind-hearted men in search of
wives will be compelled TO confne
themselves TO widows. They do not
kill themselves Times.
BUCK AND BRY.
Buckner and Bryan will sound
much like the old "Buck" and
"Breck" time, when Buchanan aud
Breckenridge were elected president
and vice president. 1t is regular
old "Buck and Bright" team that will
be able TO "pull the wagon out of the
ruts. Paducah News.
TOO MUCH TELEPHONE.
A young woman tainted in Hen
derson after turning away from a
telephone, where she had been talk
ing to friend in Owensboro. AS
nothing has been heard of the Ovens
boro party, one can only conjecture
as to his probable fate, and speculate
il he is just killed or merely had his
arms talked off.
MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.
A good many brides are finding
that marriages, is not the thing they
thought il was, and seek by suicide
to fly TO ills they know not of rather
than bear those of distasteful union.
Mrs. Smoot, of Topeka, Kansas, aged
only IT, is the last of half dozen
recently, who have shufiled OFF their
mortal coils at their own hands.
POSTED ON SCRIPTURE.
"a brother editor has discovered
that the construction put upon the
interstate law forbidding editors
travelling on passes is scriptural, and
the kicking done by some of the boys
fits the scrlptural command-Jere-
miah ", %; Though they roar, yet
shall they not pass. He thinks, how
ever, that there is a promise even for
editors-Genesis xviii, 5: Comfort
be your hearts; after that ye shall
pass on. '"-Caseyville Enterprise.
GOV. BUoKNER's WIFE.
However we'll founded may be the
hope of good administration of our
civil affairs by the distinguished cit
izen whom 1t was the pleasure of the
people TO name as candidate
for Governor, it is even
more certain that the social duties
that necessarily attach to the position
will be discharged by the woman he
welded from the old Hanover home
in Virginia. Not beautiful, yet tall,
handsome, even queenly in presence,
with soft wavy brown hair and hazel
eyes-with voice soft as flute and
an open, candid face, she is fair
and full type of those women whom,
as Steel said of Lady Elizabeth Hast
ings, ito love is liberal education"
Whatever is required by the social
necessities Of the Governors house.
hold, the duties pertaining 10 it will
be sure of proper discharge by his
wife.-Bowling Green Democrat.